Those who walk in the Lord’s ways

[Psalms 119:1-8]

                The essence of Psalms 119:1-8 is that those who walk in the Lord’s ways are blessed.  In other words, the Bible Psalms 119:1-8 says that those who practice the law of the Lord are blessed (v. 1).  That's right.  Those who walk in the law of the Lord and whose way is blameless are blessed (v. 1).  What do these blessed people do?  There are two things that they do:

            First, those who are blessed do no unrighteousness.

Look at Psalms 119:3a – “They also do no unrighteousness ….”  How can we do no unrighteousness?  We must learn to judge righteously.  Look at verse 7: “I shall give thanks to You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous judgments.”  When we learn righteous judgment, we can make a clear distinction between right and wrong, good and evil.  In such a situation, those who have righteous judgments don’t do unrighteousness.  But if we don’t have righteous judgments, we will choose the wrong way (evil), and if we choose the wrong way, we will defile ourselves.  Then we are bound to be ashamed (v. 6).

            Second, those who are blessed keep the commandments of God.

                Look at Psalms 119:1 – “How blessed are those whose way is blameless, Who walk in the law of the LORD.”  Those who are blessed learn righteous judgments through the law of the Lord.  And they choose the right way (good) and don’t choose the wrong way (evil) with their righteous judgments.  Therefore, they don’t do unrighteousness.  How, then, can we learn righteous judgments?  We can do so through the law of the Lord.  The more we learn His law, the more we will have righteous judgments.  Therefore, we have the ability to clearly distinguish between right and wrong and good and evil.  This can be called biblical discernment.  With this discernment, when we choose good with righteous judgments and hate evil, our hearts are bound to be upright.  And we who have upright hearts will choose the path of righteousness, not the path of unrighteousness.

                We must have righteous judgments through the Word of God.  And with righteous judgments, we must choose good and live a life of hating evil.  In other words, we should not end with learning the the Word, but become the doers of the Word.  We must be doers of the Word and not deceive ourselves just by listening to the Word (Jam. 1:22).  We must do this diligently.  In other words, we must keep the Word of God diligently (v. 4).  Never should we be diligent in doing unrighteousness (v. 3).  We must ask God for this.  In other words, we must seek God with all our heart to observe His Word (v. 2).  And while praying, we must practice His Word.

Those who observe the word of God are blessed (v. 2).  They will not be ashamed (v. 6).  And they will give thanks the Lord (v. 7).

Desire to be a doer of the word of God,

James Kim

(In the midst of the crisis of uprightness, while pursuing upright heart)